"It's messy outside, why don't you rest for a few more days?" Manxiu, who ate with a mouth full of oil, sandwiched two pieces of pork nose meat between her milk.

Grandma Li took a sip of green vegetable soup: "No." If it's not on our heads, how should we live. ”

After taking a shower after dinner, Xin Shansi returned to the Westinghouse. Eighty-seven coppers, she counted three times, and the more she counted, the higher she looked. The right hand touched the left arm and held the gold bracelet that was set there. She still has a worry now, her memory of the original body ranges from ten to fifteen days, and her true qi will flow backwards once.

It has been five days since the last time the True Qi was reversed. She was a little scared, and she hadn't experienced it firsthand, so she didn't know what the situation was like at the moment. Thankfully, the onset of the disease is not without warning.

She had already figured out that something was wrong with her body, so she packed up her things and left, hiding in the mountains. After the illness, go out of Fanxi City.

Tomorrow morning to kill the pig, Xin Shansi put the copper money into the baggage, lay down with his clothes together, and covered his belly with a thin quilt. As soon as the rooster crows the next day, she gets up. After washing, bring water from the well and pour it into the cauldron of the straw house in the backyard. Put the fire on the stove rack and go to fetch water. It took three trips back and forth to fill the pot. He glanced at the stove, stirred away the ashes, and added two more sticks of firewood.

"You're thin, you should sleep more." Grandma Li wore old clothes and entered the house with a short knife.

Xin Shansi smiled: "When I finish killing the pig, I will take a nap." ”

In the front yard, full of embroidered bud rice in the pot, I took out a few eggs from the clay pot and beat them together in the noodles. Reconcile, put aside and wake up. Go to the fence garden and pinch the shallots, wash them and chop them. Hearing the pig barking, she wiped her hands with a rag and went to help.

In the cauldron, the water gurgling. Xin Shansi pressed the pig down, and watched Grandma Li stab the pig into the neck with a knife, and bright red blood gushed out.

Rushing to the full embroidery, squatting down to hold the clay pot on the ground to receive blood.

This isn't the first time Sheenshansi has seen a pig slaughtered. When my grandmother was alive in my previous life, every Chinese New Year, they would go to the old house in the countryside to buy a pig and kill sausages and make bacon. Grandpa likes to eat green peppers and fry the large intestine, but the oil in the large intestine must be peeled clean, otherwise he will not eat it.

One pot of water was not enough, and another pot was boiled. The pigs are well handled, and the sky is almost dawn. Two meats, pig's head, and oil were hung on a wooden shelf in the front yard.

The three of them had breakfast, and Grandma Li went to set up an ox cart. Man Xiu cleaned up the kitchen, moved a small bench, and cleaned the pork belly and pig intestines.

Xin Shansi couldn't help, so she took out the shorts she had made yesterday and pulled in the waistband of her pants. When the embroidery was finished, the two began to tie up.

Serial, golden cicada, concentric...

Xin Shansi chose a good and simple style to teach, and guided her to match colors by the way. The opportunity is rare, and the embroidery is focused, and he can skillfully play seven kinds of yarns in only two days.

Grandma Li often goes to the embroidery village to buy rags and silk threads, and she has a familiar face with the shopkeeper of the embroidery village. On this day, she came to the door with a hundred strings, and the shopkeeper was unexpected.

"Granddaughter hit?"

Grandma Li didn't answer, so she had to say: "Take a look, if you get into the eye, give a fair price." ”

The shopkeeper took a closer look at each other, and after reading it, there was a smile on his face: "We have known each other for seven or eight years, and I won't come with you." The price of such a network in the shop is five or six Wen. Five or six texts, by craftsmanship. ”

After finishing 600 papers, Grandma Li saw that there was cloth for sale, and looked through it to see that it was not very broken, and weighed five catties. After buying a few catties of silk thread, she was ready to go back. As soon as he arrived at the door with his things, he saw a few young men in cloth riding horses passing by.

"The Xin family hasn't caught the thief yet?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly: "If you catch it, it will stop." Yesterday, my sister-in-law came and said that some people had gone to the village to listen and asked if they had seen any raw faces? ”

Grandma Li sneered: "Why don't you look like a thief?" ”

"You're really right." The shopkeeper sent her out of the shop, and told her in a small voice: "The Zhao family in the north of the city is buying and talking, and the Xin family is looking for a girl." ”

"People have the heart to hide, it's really hard to find." Grandma Li put her things on the ox cart.

"What's so hard to find?" The shopkeeper drew a handkerchief to shield her from the sun: "If she is willing to make silver, even if she is buried in a rat hole, someone will dig her out." ”

Grandma Li smiled: "Let's go." ”

"You're still sending me here, I won't lose you."

"Done."

"Walk slowly."

In only seven or eight days, he earned 400 yuan, and Xin Shansi was overjoyed. The days were peaceful, day by day. The soup was nourished, her face gradually became bloody, and her body was plump, without the slightest abnormality.

At the beginning of August, the embroidery was also collected.

The atmosphere of the Xin family in the south of the city was gloomy, and the people under them were all tense. The people sent to Changhe Town, Hongjiang City, came back, and the fourth lady didn't bother the outside family. Xin Liangyou frowned, Shansi had been missing for twenty-three days, and according to the past, she should have been sick twice.

"Brother Liang," Han Fengniang was also worried, and entered the house with a soup cup: "I can't find Shansi, Yue'er has no face to see you." She boiled the lily lotus seed soup with her own hands and begged me to bring it to you. ”

Xin Liangyou sighed: "I don't know if Shansi is dead or alive?" ”

"I've been thinking about something lately." Han Fengniang put the soup on the table: "Shansi is tightly protected by the family, and she has never walked alone outside, so she definitely doesn't know how to be vigilant in her actions." But we've been looking for so long, but we can't find the slightest trace. It's as if she's gone out of nowhere, don't you think it's weird? ”

Unknowingly, Hong is a very cautious person. Xin Liangyou is only worried now that Shansi ran away this time because she knew that the Hong family was not alive. If that's the case, it's bad.

"Brother Liang?"

"Shansi follows her mother."

A word made Han Fengniang shut up. Xin Liangyou didn't want to think about the consequences of Shansi knowing that her mother died at his hands, so he asked instead: "How is He Danhongyi's wedding gift?" ”

"It's all right." Han Fengniang made a blockage in her heart, it was indeed difficult for her to be a strong person at the beginning, but after marriage, she thought that she was no worse than Hong's. Moreover, the resentment between the Xin family and the black and white old eyebrows of Ghost Shadow Mountain was still made by her eldest brother.

Xin Liangyou looked at him: "It's not a few days until August 12, let's leave early, I want to meet the new master of Baicaotang." ”

"Lishang?" Han Fengniang frowned. Three years ago, Baicaotang was just a small medical hall under Shisong Mountain, but now there are sixty-three cities in Dameng, which city does not have Baicaotang? Bai Qian didn't have the ability to do this.

"Yes." Xin Liangyou took a deep breath, and as soon as Bai Qian died, his plan was completely disrupted. Now that Shansi has escaped, his dream of being the first in the world is getting slimmer and slimmer.

"Bai Qian, this closed disciple, rarely shows up outside, and he will also go to Hongdai Valley this time?" Shan Hongyi's face is really not small, Han Fengniang's heart is slightly sour.

I have heard that Li Shang is not only better than Pan An, but also has good medical skills. Shan Hongyi's daughter Shan Xiangsang has not yet been married, if she can marry with Baicaotang, then Hongdaigu's status in the Jianghu martial arts will be greatly improved.

"Will go." Xin Liangyou hooked his lips, and his eyes were gloomy. Others don't know, but he knows that Li Shang is just a medicine man in front of Bai.

Chapter 5

As soon as August begins, the weather is cold in the morning and evening. Xin Shansi planned to make two thick clothes while she had a fixed place to live. Cropping, she'll do it. In her previous life, my grandfather bought a Phoenix brand sewing machine for my grandmother after marriage, and it has not broken for decades. Recently, I have been doing menstrual belts and soles, and the stitches have also been practiced.

For her body, the length of her blouse is estimated to be four and a half feet of cloth, and her pants are three to three and a half feet. One foot of cotton cloth is sixteen words. Cotton is expensive, about 100 wen per catty.

After calculating the rough, Xin Shansi took the one hundred and fifty strings she had saved and went to the hall. It just so happened that Man Xiu was also talking about cutting autumn clothes.

"It's time for you to work hard to support me, I can't honor you yet?"

"I've got clothes to wear, you can make them for yourself." Grandma Li said so, but her eyes were full of water, and she was full of relief: "Such a big girl, she should wear something bright." Maybe one day the matchmaker will come to the door and say that she will get married..."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Man Xiu stomped his feet, and when he saw his good sister coming, his face was hot: "Look at my milk." ”

While her granddaughter was not paying attention, Grandma Li turned her face and wiped her eyes. Xin Shansi stepped into the door and put the small burden of the envelope on the table: "Grandma is right, don't be ashamed." "It's not as open now as it was a thousand years ago," the man should get married, and the woman should get married. It's time to think about what kind of in-laws you're looking for. ”

This can be regarded as talking about Grandma Li's heart, a woman's marriage match, not only depends on the character of the man, but also touches the prospective in-law's family. Especially her embroidery, she is the only lonely woman behind her, and there is no brother to be a backer.

"How can you... Also so? The cheeks were red, and he threw down the fast-finishing line: "Ignore you," and ran out.

Xinshansi smiled.

"This girl..."Grandma Li also raised her lips, walked to the table and looked at the little baggage: "I'll send you to the embroidery workshop tomorrow." ”

"Grandma, I want to pull some cloth." It has been twenty-four days since she left the Xin family, and she has not been sick, but Xin Shansi didn't think that this body would be all fine with a different core. She doesn't know how to distinguish true qi and internal strength, but she still knows how much strength she has.

The internal strength is not gone, it is in her body.

Grandma Li nodded: "It's going to pull two bodies." "I measured her with my finger in the past," I heard the gold shopkeeper say a few days ago that the south side is going to come to approve the cloth, and I don't know if it has arrived? When we arrive, we can ask if there is any damaged cloth, which is the same, but it is much cheaper. ”

"I'm sorry for you."

"You gave me and the embroidery girl so many thousand layers of bottoms, my eyes are clear."

After getting along for almost a month, Grandma Li really likes Shan Niangzi. This girl doesn't want to owe anyone, she lives at home, and she is tired of all the work, and she is not delicate at all. After teaching embroidery for a few days, embroidery not only can play twenty or thirty kinds of yarns, but also grow better in cutting and color matching. She also cherishes this fate.

Man Xiu avoided Shanniang for an afternoon, but squeezed into the West House in the evening. She is fifteen years old, and it is not that she has never thought about getting married. But like Chen Xiuniang, she was beaten and scolded by men. She was looking forward to it, but she was a little afraid.

"Shanniang, you have always been married?"

Xin Shansi lay flat, turned her head to look at the little girl, curled her lips and smiled: "Finally asked?" ”

"I... Am I not afraid that you will be sad? "Full embroidery and curiosity to death, Shanniang's long eyebrows and starry eyes are beams and straight, and she is a blessed person at a glance. She's still very capable, why shouldn't she be left in exile?

"I've never been married." In her previous life, she had a year of pure love in college, and after graduation, she was busy with work and family, and she didn't have time to toss around. Present... The smile on Xin Shansi's lips gradually receded, she had a time bomb in her arms, and whoever she was good with was a scourge.

"Then you still talk about me." Man Xiu smiled and pushed her down.

Xin Shansi said: "I have never been married, but my mother is not married, what is the result of her?" Died at my father's hands, so..."

"Didn't your mother get married?" Man Xiu was shocked, and then connected the matter again, blurted out and scolded: "How can your father be like this, is he still a human?" "It's no wonder that Shanniang is leaving. She doesn't go away every day to face the evil father, is it revenge or not?

"So you have to look at it when you get married." Xin Shansi conveyed her thoughts: "You have to remember that you must value yourself at all times. On the bright side, you can be from your husband and take your husband as the sky, but you must be sober in your heart and not rely on men. A man's love will change. ”

In the dark, Man Xiu looked at her good sisters, and her lips pursed slightly.

Xin Shansi was afraid that she wouldn't understand: "Let me ask you, if you have a child after marriage, should you put the child first, or yourself?" ”

This... Man Xiu wanted to talk about the child, but felt that Shanniang asked so, there must be her purpose.

"Remember..."Xin Shansi pondered and said, "You must put yourself first." When your child is not grown, he will depend on you to live. Hello, they're fine. If you don't have it, your man will turn around and marry them a stepmother. ”

"If you want to meet someone like your father...", Man Xiu didn't dare to think about it.

"Don't lose your skills at any time, and when you have a good time, you should work hard to improve yourself." ”

Looking at her gaze, Man Xiu recalled the words, and nodded heavily: "I remember." ”

"Finally, don't spoil and consume yourself for the sake of unworthy people." Xin Shansi covered the hand that was full of embroidery holding her arm, and grasped it tightly: "For a lifetime, a good life will be a hundred years old, we can't waste it on some bad things." ”

The more embroidery you have, the more you feel right. She hated Tang Meiniang for nine years, does Tang Meiniang know, will she not be able to swallow because of her hatred? It's ridiculous to think about it, if Tang Meiniang really cared about her, she wouldn't have taken the family's capital to buy pigs and ran away at night.

Fortunately, she didn't care, and sat at Tang's house with a pig-killing knife. What about the Tang family's litter of men, they didn't obediently make up the money and send her milk away.

Early the next morning, Grandma Li drove the ox cart and dragged half of the pig to the city. The two of them at home cleaned up the inside and outside of the house, and then sat down in the hall and began to talk. Busy until noon, after embroidering the acacia buckle at hand, he got up to prepare lunch.

In the morning, there are still cakes on the stall, cut leeks and eggs and scramble, and then heat the bud rice porridge.

Then he took the knife and heard a knock at the door. She turned to her head and asked, "Who?" No one answered, but they went to the door anyway.

In the house, Xin Shansi avoided the back room, listening carefully to the movement outside.

Man Xiu looked through the crack in the door, confirmed that it was a living person, and clenched the knife in his hand: "Who are you?" ”

"Girl, we don't have bad intentions, we just want to ask you, have you seen anything fresh at the foot of this mountain recently?" The man outside the house had a good tone.

She said that the Xin family couldn't catch the thief, and opened the door: "My grandmother said that there was chaos outside, and I haven't gone out for a few days." What do the people you look for look like? ”

"Who?" Xin Shansi walked out of the house under the eaves, and her smart fingers quickly braided the blessing knot, and looked at the gate of the courtyard.

The two men at the door of the pestle looked past the girl in front of them, looked at the other one, and moved away in an instant, and bowed: "Disturbed." ”

When the person walked away, Man Xiu closed the door and turned around to face Shanniang.

Xin Shansi smiled and urged: "Go and cut leeks." "The Xin family is not looking for a virtuous girl from a good family. She has a ruddy complexion, and her whole body is not a little sloppy and skillful, obviously betraying their stereotype of "crazy woman".